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Yes I Am the Muffin Man

Can you believe Valentine's Day is almost here? Valentine's is a big deal in my house, since my Dad is a Valentine's baby and my hubby was born on Feb. 15th. Somehow it seems like it was just Christmas, and now I'm realizing I have presents to buy and cards to make, like YESTERDAY! LOL! Oh, and I better hurry up and show you guys all the samples I've been making for The Cat's Pajamas before you're all Valentine'd out! :)

So here's my Love Muffin card. I was originally going to make this into a shadowbox card, but since my Marvy heart punches only give me about 1/4" clearance from the edge of the paper, I decided it would end up being too heavy to stand up with so many layers as a shadowbox card. So I adapted it to a regular card. I started by punching a Mega heart punch out of black cardstock and then a Giga Heart punch out of some pink Paper Accents Muslin paper. I then stamped the medium heart circle stamp from the Loving Mew set randomly over the pink strip with Versafine Crimson Red ink. Next I layered the black piece with the heart punch out behind the pink piece so I could estimate where I needed to stamp Angel Yappy from Puppy Love directly on my white card base. Next I made two strips of scallop borders using my corner rounder without the guide and glued them to either side of the pink strip and tied some black May Arts double stitched ribbon around one side. I highlighted Yappy with a light gray marker and then added some Stardust Stickles to his wings.

I stamped the Love Muffin sentiment in the corner and then decided it needed a little something else. So I pulled out the tiny flower from the Be Still My Beating Heart set and stamped a little flower trail across the top and bottom edges and colored each lightly with a blending pen. To finish off, I added some Liquid Pearls to the black inner mat around the heart.

15 comments

Becky G said...

Absolutely adorable! That image is just too cute and the sentiment too!

mudmaven said...

Love that card. The liquid pearls add a very nice touch! TFS ~chris

Christi Flores said...

This card is awesome!!!! I LOVE it!

Anonymous said...

Just mailing a few valentines today myself!! Cute card.....the black is soooo stunning!! My brain can only put black w/ red and brown w/ pink but I love the black and pink......very pretty!!

squirrellyshirley

Karrie Baker said...

OH MY GOSH!! We must have been on the same wave length last night because I had Yappy all inked up for an ATC I was working on!! heehee See, great minds think alike! LOL

I will post my ATC tonight so you can see it...by the way I LOVE THIS CARD!! I think you should send it to me instead of Alma!! :)

Linda Carson said...

toooooooooo cute & sooooo adorable!

Alex said...

This is adorable, love this! *STAMPIN HUGS* Alex

Anonymous said...

So cute! Love the way your border stops to make way for the sentiment! The sentiment is so cute!

Scrappychick said...

Julee, I just love all the little details about this card!

Beth Norman-Roberts said...

Oh, I love it! The design is very unique. As always you shine!

Anonymous said...

Julee, I'm loving your cards! Even your whimsical ones are elegant!!!

Sharon in NE said...

The tiny flower trail just completes it. Nice job Julee.


(lucky Alma)

dasimonds said...

Adorable!!
Really cute stamp..
Great colors and design
Great Card.

Linda Nicholson said...

I'm in love with this card! I just love the heart around Poochie and all the depth that you achieved.

Linda

Alli Miles said...

I just LOVE this card!